Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-07-24
'BEANY's DORNMENT
NAOMI TRKNx NILS WHAT TO WEAR
DURTS THE OUTING,
Talks About Seaside Gcwns-EnoOuragement for
Ladies Of Reduced WardObss-faSte
Tact and Personal Charms Better
Than Fine RainsnL
Gprresponderee Of he R.ais,er.

Special Correspondence Of The Register.
NEW YORK, July 22.-Miss Flora ne
Flimsy wants, Of all things, 10 90 to a
summer resort, but she thinks she can't
because her wardrobe is rather down at
the heel. She thinks she must have loads
Of gowns to be anybody at the springs, in
the mountains, or by the sea. She is mis-
taken. The woman with ten trunks and
forty gowns is quite infrequent, and
laughed at on the sly when she dees APP
pear. The world is not made up entirely
of Vanderbilts aud doodle aldermen. An
the refinement and taste do not Turk in
Fifth svenue mansions, or depart on Euro
pean steamers, or accompany great cara
vans OF trunks TO Newport and Saratoga.
In fact, i have sometimes wondered how
some oil the very rich managed to make
themselves so hideous.
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No, there are numberleSs people on the
face of the earth, whose acquaintance to any
n would be a benefit and enjoyment.
who are quite put 10 it sometimes to rake
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the fashion writer things of information
about $40 a yard goods OF $50 wraps in a
way that makes You feel cheap and poor
Just to read about them. Iou think that
If some people are going it like that you
might AZ we'll hang up the fiddle and the
bow. Well, 1 have, alas been at nuner-
Gus summer resorts, and / have never yet
seen eXtrayagant clothes do anything for
their owner save make u fool Of her. /
admit that nice clothes are "A neces.
sity, a comfort, an adOrnment,
an enjoyment; but they are
not to be wOrshiped. They have no i'm
mortal souls. But nice clothes are not
necessarily either ~eXtravagant or nu-
merous | heard a man say quite recent
ly-and he was not without experience,
either-that a lady could break a mans
heart Just as soon and etfectually in 4
bingham gown rs in diamonds and laces.
| will confirm his opinion, for | have seen
it done again and again. | will 90 far
ther, and be will agree with me. | have
never seen clothes, aud clothes only, break
any mans heart. If gowns could per-
fern that interesting feat the Broadway
show windows would be surrounded knee
deep with male corpse.
No; clothes are not To be worShiped.
Neither are they to be sighted. But
about your summer resort wardrobe. don't
fret. You can 20 through with flying col
Ors on four dresses, three if necessary, if
they are well chosen. What arc they? Ii
is not essential that they are OF Just such
aud such material, but see to 1t that they
comprise the correct and comfortable thing
for morning aud for evening. For morn
ing, which Is generally supposed TO last
until evening, get something you can
slam around in, and will look stylish,
and yet he becoming and easy. Don't
he too much dressed up. Nothing is
better lor every kind of summer
~lounging place, interior or seaside, than a
dark blue flannel. but IT should be of
good quality, soft, tue and not heavy.
Have 1t made in the simplest way, tailor
made, If you are addicted to c0TsetS at all
hours. Or you can have two waists with
it, a tight fitting basque and a blouse waist;
but you want your skirt very simple, kilt
or box plated, with little oT no drIpery.
OR You can have Jerseys OF both styles, to
match, and save the bother OF having
waists made. If you don't take to blue
flannel, there are lovely grays and ecrus
and blacks. Or you can have a nice black
or gray uIOhair, simply but gracefully
made, and you can rack around Ill 1t till
the end OF time and il will still look well.
Last year these mOhaIrS were quite in
vogue in Paris and Mt French watering
places, and were introduced into New
York this season. though so far they have
not been extensively taken up, though |
predict that another season will zee them
quite popular. They are splendid for
travelling dresses, light, cool and dust
shedding. This mOhair is exactly the
same as Turkish brillianiine of ten years
ago, a superior kind OF alpaca. Or you
will find that a good gingham nicely made
will answer quite well for morning wear ut
the resort. Then you will want
a black surah silk for dress up
occasions. Two waists to this
will help you out. One cut n little low
in the neck and with lace or illusion
sleeves, for evenings when you want to
look particularly swell, and a nice cream
white gOwn of some soft wool goods, also
for evening. To this you might have a
pretty low necked cOrsage and Il close lit
ting Jersey. At the risk of thrashing over
old straw, l will say again that now isthe
time to buy jerseys. The shops have them
of every cut, style and texture, T~uiniously
cheap. A white one, just the thing to wear
with yOur soft. cream while wool skirt,
can he cot for SB 30, and il will have a
vest front o fsilk embroidery studded with
pearl beads. saw just such a one yes
terday. 1t had been purchased by a cele-
brated authoress who lives out of
the city, and it was to go
with her to the seashore and do its part
in the general slaughter of the male
innocents which will naturally follow.
The Princess of Wales takes to cream
white. On the last day of the regatta at
Henley, when the leader of the house of
commons entertained Wales and his wife
at his riverside dwelling, the princess wore
a cream colored gown with bonnet to match,
and carried a cream and red striped sun
shadewith a handle as long rs the stalk OF u
broom. His royal highneSs appeared in a
dark gray shooting jacket and a deerstalker
hat OF the same material. Most OF the fair
Young English girls wore yachting suits OF
flannel.
Well, in addition to your black surah,
YOUR blue flannel and your cream white
wool, you can have a fourth gown which
can do general utility duty. Let it be of
any of the pretty wooden materials so plen-
tiful now; or let 1t be q colOTed silk If you
long for it and can afford it, or a good
light summer silk-not a thin, slazy one,
which will always look rural and cheap.
These. with a hat or two, and a dear
little bonnet, will put You through capt.
tally, unless you 90 ouly among people
who know nothing hut clothes; and right
here | will tell you that those people are
the stupidest in the world IN spite of their
riches. | have known some of them who
nave a contempt for mental requirements.
Such things were for teachers and other
base creatures" who earned their bread,
they said.
Or you can make some nice changes by
getting some deep lace HOuncing, black or
eolored, or white, and making an overdress
which can be slipped on over any OF your
old eolored silks after you have ripped the